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camaradafrank t1_irk4vr0 wrote

Reply to comment by mmarollo in [OC] The GDP of US Latinos is greater than Brazil’s and Mexico’s combined. by latinometrics

How can they be Latinos if they were born in the US? Are you literally being racist?

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Smooth-Disk-3656 t1_irk8nku wrote

There’s a government categorization by ethnicity used by the us government agencies which usually consists of white (mostly European), African American, Native American and Hispanics. You can be a latino even if your grandparents came from Mexico half century ago

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camaradafrank t1_irkac2x wrote

Latim and Hispanics are not the same things, still racist.

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Smooth-Disk-3656 t1_irmk51s wrote

You can cry and be offended by that’s the official categorization done by the us federal agencies, which is replicated at state/city levels

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camaradafrank t1_irmrude wrote

So you are officially racist, not a shock to anyone with a bit of self determination . USA laws do not rule the entire American continent, this term was conjured in the US, this was never a convention between countries of South America and Central America. You might think that the USA’s influence is omnipotent, but it is not.

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